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to what the next object of expansion ought to be it would be the addition
of a Department of Home Economics. In making this suggestion we are assuing
that A. and T. College will continue to remain a school for boys only. Perhaps
it would be well for the trustees of the North Carolina College for Negroes
to find out whether A. and T. College is giving any thought to making of itself
a coeducational institution. If it should be ascertained that A. and T.
College has no desire to become a coeducational institution, then the North
Carolina College for Negroes ought ultimately to have Home Economics in its
curriculum. If the college should continue to grow, as we expect it will,
the addition of that department might be a specific objective for legislative
request in 1931. It would be well to have that in mind in the erection of the
new Administration Building and make provision for laboratory and classroom
space.

VIII. We appreciate, as do you, the imperative need for the carrying out
of your building program and the developing of your physical plant. The institution
can not hope to be a real college in its present physical state. We
are anxious to assist in any way possible. Our interest and sympathy encompass
the whole cause of education, public and private, white and colored, and we
realize fully that the cause of Negro Education will be jeopardized if the
North Carolina College for Negroes should fail.

It has been a real pleasure and delight to prepare this report, at
your request. We have tried to concern ourselves with what we consider to be
some of the fundamentals. We hope what we have said may prove helpful to you in